Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), September 2021

by: dimitry12
text: Rosebud AI (YC S19) | DevOps Engineer | REMOTE | Part-time | <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rosebud.ai&#x2F;hiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rosebud.ai&#x2F;hiring&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosebud.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosebud.ai&#x2F;</a> powers a suite of apps to help creatives make content. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokkingheads.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokkingheads.com&#x2F;</a>, our most popular app (2 million IOS downloads, all organic, high retention) allows any portrait&#x2F;photo&#x2F;face to be animated in seconds with no skill. Creators use Tokkingheads to make memes, deepfake parodies, NFTs, and most notably make their family and friends feel special with photos of past loved ones animated (1.8M views #tokkingheads hashtags on TikTok).<p>We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to:<p>* help ML engineers containerize and deploy models and ML pipelines;<p>* maintain the production Kubernetes cluster: including upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting;<p>* instrument and configure the cluster for analytics, profiling, scaling, and other purposes as defined by business-goals, backend-team and ML-team;<p>* support, manage and troubleshoot (remotely) dedicated physical servers used by ML-team for model-training;<p>* analyze and optimize infrastructure cost;<p>* keep logs and documentation of infrastructure changes and decisions.<p>Our stack: AKS with node-autoscaling and custom replica-scaling logic, Skaffold, basic Istio, and a little Helm. The cluster is mostly stateless (model weights are in Azure Files). We use GPU-nodes and care a lot about using resources efficiently.

by: serverlessmom
text: I&#x27;m in Oregon but you can be remote anywhere<p>I always need help writing content for software marketing. Huge plus if you have anything to say about containerized workloads.<p>email nica [at] runx.dev , no need for a long resume or cover letter, just a few links to some past writing, or even your longish HN comments, would be a great place to start.<p>I&#x27;m new to Hacker News so if there was anything egregiously off about this comment please reply and let know

by: clone1018
text: Glimesh.tv | Video Ingest Project | HOURLY &#x2F; PROJECT | REMOTE<p>Technologies: Go, Pion, WebRTC, UDP, RTP!<p>Glimesh.tv is a next-gen live streaming platform using WebRTC to deliver sub second latency to all content creators. We&#x27;re looking for an experienced Go engineer to help us push our newest RTMP =&gt; WebRTC project across the finish line. The project has all of the initial framework in place, and is only a couple hundred lines of Go. The project takes RTMP input, converts it to RTP packets, and forwards the traffic into our video distribution network. Experience with Pion or video &#x2F; audio manipulation is preferred, but we&#x27;d love to hear from anyone!<p>Additionally the project is open source, and your paid work on it would be given back to the video streaming community. The project is at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Glimesh&#x2F;rtmp-ingest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Glimesh&#x2F;rtmp-ingest</a><p>Email: luke@glimesh.tv

by: Harsimran
text: Backend Developer - Automation Test | Remote | Starting Immediately<p>Gerald (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joingerald.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joingerald.com&#x2F;</a>) is a Y Combinator-backed technology company based in New York. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying their household bills while offering overdraft and late fee protection for all their biller accounts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.workatastartup.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;gerald-technologies-inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.workatastartup.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;gerald-technologies...</a><p>We&#x27;re actively looking for someone with extensive experience in developing automation scripts for backend. We&#x27;re making a lot of changes to the backend, hence, we need to run Automated Test each time we&#x27;re making updates to ensure that the backend functionality is intact.<p>Deliverable: Have the Automation testing script ready.<p>The candidate should specialize in:<p>- NodeJS<p>- Express + web-pack<p>- Testing with Jest(Unit, integrating, mocking and faking)<p>- Typeorm<p>Frameworks: JEST, SuperTest<p>Available to start immediately? Let&#x27;s connect: harsimran@joingerald.com | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;harsimrancheema&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;harsimrancheema&#x2F;</a>

by: BitMEX_Nick
text: Bitmex | Data | CA (BC) &#x2F; SG &#x2F; Remote (VISA) | Full time + part time<p>USD 1 trillion turnover a year; ~100TB of relational internal data now, PB-scale external sources later; Redshift, PostgreSQL, Tableau, legacy Python but open to Haskell&#x2F;Mercury&#x2F;Idris on Nix, Rust, Zio, Kotlin, OCaml for new projects.<p>Spend the morning supporting users then handover to the next time zone. Afternoon is for undisturbed R&amp;D, where I expect most of your (replicable) experiments to fail. Ongoing experiments include alpha capture systems, generating implied vol history or 20x lossless compression through normalisation.<p>Mid and junior roles, if possible in time zones UTC-08 to -06 or +00 to +02. Work entirely remotely, subject to regulatory considerations. We can also relocate you to Vancouver or Singapore.<p>Process: “CAPTCHA” filter question &gt; ~1-4h take home to test skills meet baseline &gt; 2-4 calls with end users and team (no whiteboard) &gt; offer &gt; background check&#x2F;visa.<p>Apply here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grnh.se&#x2F;66d1bc4d2us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grnh.se&#x2F;66d1bc4d2us</a>

by: aiMatthew
text: Unity&#x2F;C#&#x2F;C++ | Edinburgh, Scotland | REMOTE | Full-time or 24+ hours per week<p>Kythera AI is a video game AI middleware for Unreal Engine, O3DE, Lumberyard and CryEngine. It provides character and 3D vehicle navigation, behavior authoring and rich debugging tools. It’s in use in indie titles and AAA games alike. Read our blog post how we helped Wolcen Studios to implement their impressive 2D formations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kythera.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-2d-formations-of-wolcen-lord" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kythera.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-2d-formations-of-wolcen-lord</a>...<p>We are looking for a Unity and C# expert with excellent C++ skills to support our team in developing a C#&#x2F;Unity integration for our middleware: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kythera.ai&#x2F;recruitment&#x2F;senior-unity-developer-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kythera.ai&#x2F;recruitment&#x2F;senior-unity-developer-c</a><p>Could lead to wider role and permanent position, but the requirement is just to accelerate our progress over the next 6 months.

by: beerd
text: StockAlarm | 4d+&#x2F;w | Fully Remote (Any timezone as long as you can join meetings on Tuesday 9AM PST)<p>We&#x27;re a group of stock + crypto lovers working on StockAlarm (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stockalarm.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stockalarm.io&#x2F;</a>). All of us are full stack engineers. Two ex-Facebook employees and one Amazon employee. We&#x27;re a small team with one full-timer and a few working on the project as something on the side.<p>The product has grown very fast over the last year with over 30k MAU currently. You can read up on us in our IndieHackers interview at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;interview&#x2F;how-weve-grown-in-a-competitive-space-by-eating-our-own-dogfood-9c76002091" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;interview&#x2F;how-weve-grown-in-a-c...</a>.<p>Want to learn all about rapid growth and building awesome products? Interested in trading as well? Reach out to us at joinus@stockalarm.io . No dev shops and&#x2F;or agencies.<p>Techs<p>- Firebase (RTDB + Phone Auth + Functions)<p>- React.js + React Native<p>- Redis

by: NathanRamsay
text: – Remote or central Virginia, US-based<p>Remote: Yes<p>Willing to relocate: With Assistance<p>I’m an entry level developer with skills in Python, Django, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and Assembly. I have an Associates of Computer Science from Piedmont Virginia Community College, work towards a Bachelors of Computer Science at James Madison University, and I have extensive training in networking and security through the military.<p>I’ve worked with distributed teams in the past, where I taught myself Blueprints for Unreal Engine 4, animation through Maya, and how to establish an animation pipeline.<p>Resume: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1-d7cOL7DtNHaP07QK9eVA80aHcuIHufQA0Lt7pGZ5xs&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1-d7cOL7DtNHaP07QK9eVA80a...</a><p>Git: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SanguinemDracones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SanguinemDracones</a><p>Email: nathan.paul.ramsay@gmail.com

by: dcairman
text: WASHINGTON, D.C. | REMOTE<p>C4ADS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c4ads.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c4ads.org</a>), an open-source intelligence investigative non-profit, is seeking a backend software engineer and leader who can help us deliver a flight analytics platform called Icarus Flights (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icarus.flights" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icarus.flights</a>).<p>Our nascent software practice is in need of strong contributors who are comfortable taking responsibility for new projects. Your contributions can set the stage for important analytical work – the sort you read about in global publications.<p>The right consultant has experience building scalable, testable, data-heavy web application APIs on AWS with Python, Django, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, and Redis. Experience with Kubernetes and Kafka are a plus.<p>Email: hello@icarus.flights

by: lishali88
text: Rosebud AI (YC S19) | Backend Engineer | REMOTE | Part-time | <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rosebud.ai&#x2F;hiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rosebud.ai&#x2F;hiring&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosebud.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosebud.ai&#x2F;</a> powers a suite of apps to help creatives make content. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokkingheads.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tokkingheads.com&#x2F;</a>, our most popular app (2 million IOS downloads, all organic, high retention) allows any portrait&#x2F;photo&#x2F;face to be animated in seconds with no skill. Creators use Tokkingheads to make memes, deepfake parodies, NFTs, and most notably make their family and friends feel special with photos of past loved ones animated (1.8M views #tokkingheads hashtags on TikTok).<p>We are looking for an experienced back-end engineer to bridge the gap between ML pipelines and customer-facing applications:<p>* maintain and extend business logic, including authentication, billing, access control, caching, user-managed data and settings;<p>* maintain and extend APIs consumed by our web- and mobile apps;<p>* in collaboration with ML team integrate business logic with ML pipelines using queues or HTTP;<p>* create and maintain integrations with 3rd-party services such as Stripe, Mailgun, and others;<p>* closely follow current and anticipated development of mobile and web applications to support new features with corresponding API endpoints;<p>* collaborate with front-end developers to shift complex logic to the backend where possible and reuse it across all customer-facing applications;<p>* document and test API endpoints, help front-end developers troubleshoot and use APIs efficiently.<p>Our stack: Firestore and GCS for persisting data, Firebase Functions and Firestore Triggers with node.js runtime for hosting APIs and business logic, Firebase Authentication for user management, RabbitMQ for jobs management.

by: keithwarren
text: Remote US<p>Fern Creek Software is in need of multiple developers with various disciplines. Most of what we do is C# but that is honestly not a big requirement for us as most smart developers can pick up another language pretty easy.<p>We are consultants so we do work for other companies, usually SaaS companies.<p>Our teams are small, usually less than 7 people and we try to make sure and keep developers writing code instead of stuck in meetings.<p>This is a job where you will constantly be solving challenging technical problems, working with and learning from other really smart developers and using the latest tech stacks.<p>I need people who are self starters, can stay focused and can work independently, we are not setup for lots of overhead. We have no project managers or anything like that.<p>Interested?<p>Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware dot com

by: uplift_ltd
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone<p>At Uplift, we’re on a mission to perfect our work life while learning, building, and enjoying our free time. We&#x27;re looking for well rounded software engineers to join our team. Contract or contract-to-hire, open to employment too. Many more details on our website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers</a><p>1. Mid&#x2F;senior experience in at least 2 of these:<p>* React&#x2F;React Native<p>* Django (python)<p>* GraphQL (Django &amp; React+Apollo)<p>Usually start part time &amp; ramp up.<p>2. Scala Engineer<p>The position involves building backend services in Scala and a GraphQL layer in TypeScript.<p><i>Must</i> have 1-2 years of experience with Scala. Experience with TypeScript is a big plus.<p>This is a 6-month opportunity,could turn into a permanent position.<p>Bonus:<p>* Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget&#x2F;estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)<p>* Heroku or AWS<p>* Laravel&#x2F;MVC framework in PHP, PHPUnit<p>* Thrift<p>* Excellent CSS skills<p>* Native iOS&#x2F;Android<p>* SQL experience<p>* Can think critically, build from rough specs (no designs or detailed specs)<p>One of our core values is continuous learning: within the industry &amp; from each other. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. If you&#x27;re self-sufficient, passionate &amp; a good communicator, apply now!<p>Web designers can check out our site for details.<p>#### To apply:<p>You have at least 20 hours per week available, and are located in a US timezone.<p>Visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a>, select a position, and follow the instructions.

by: ReDeiPirati
text: Writers, Bloggers - Business Intelligence, Analytics, DataOps, Database, Data warehouse, SQL | REMOTE (anywhere on the blue planet)<p>Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users.<p>We are looking for writers and bloggers to help us creating high-quality, informative, and  engaging content for our community.<p>Interested? Apply here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;freelance_technical_writers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;freelance_technical_writers&#x2F;</a>

by: kasbah
text: Remote (UTC+1)<p>We are building a search engine for open source hardware. Seeking two software engineers with experience in building search engines for a 3 month full-time contract (4500 Euro a month). Interest in hardware (electronic engineering, mechanical engineering) and enthusiasm for open source a plus.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.openknowhow.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.openknowhow.org</a> (proof of concept site built in a few days)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openknowhow.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openknowhow.org</a><p>Please email your CV to kaspar [at] kitspace.org

by: atlasunshrugged
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS Location: Global, but US focused Technologies: Anything ML related
I&#x27;m at Tribe.AI, a collective of folks in the machine learning field (ranging from data scientists to engineers to researchers). The main focus is doing bespoke client projects but we also are just a fun little community, some folks have worked on and launched startups together, done pro-bono work, and in normal times we try to have dinners and get togethers. You can apply directly on the site or if you have q&#x27;s my email is in my bio.<p>-Joel

by: hl_talented
text: Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm | Remote &amp; onsite<p>Dozens of projects open currently with varying tech stacks, see the project list at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talented.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talented.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;</a>

by: mm_talented
text: US &amp; Canada (GMT -4) | Remote<p>Looking for experienced full stack developers for our client projects e.g. in the media streaming industry.<p>Tech: JavaScript &#x2F; TypeScript, Node.js, React, Jenkins<p>Duration: at least 6 months &#x2F; flexible<p>Contact: hello@talented.fi